Storage For Child Artwork: The Organizing Process

• Go through your child's masterpieces one by one and only keep your
favorites. It's best to do this purging session at the end of each
school year.

• If one of your favorites is in bad shape (i.e. ripped), take a picture of it and then discard it.

• As you make decisions, put the item in the corresponding pile, bag or box - Keep (store or display), Give (to relatives, as teacher Christmas gifts, etc.), Recycle or Trash.

• Take out the trash for a clean work area. This avoids any undoing of your hard work.

SORT:

• Sort your child's artwork and categorize it by year.

**Write the date on the back of each piece of your kid's artwork
as it comes into your home. This is good for memory sake AND for keeping
things organized.**

STORE:

• Put the categorized items away accordingly. Use large art
portfolios (like the ones below) and label them with your child's name and the date of the
contents inside (i.e. Emily's Art, K-5th Grade).

• Also check out the products suggested below!

MAINTAIN:

• At the end of each school year, go through and purge your kids artwork only keeping the best pieces.

Storage For Kids Artwork: The Organizing Products

There are tons of great products to organize childrens drawings and other works of art. Check out the ones featured below!

SchoolfolioThis is a great product for organizing kids art. There is a single
portfolio or an all-in-one option and a place in the front for your
kid's photo. Check it out!

My Art Portfolio
This brightly-colored portfolio features 9 expandable pockets and holds art that is up to 12"x18".

Itoya Portfolios
The Itoya art portfolios are among my favorites. They come in all different sizes and are made well.

Kids Art Frame
Want to display the masterpieces? Check out these cool frames that open from the front and making switching art very easy!

Storage For Kids Artwork: Digital Solutions

Don't want to store the artwork? We've got solutions for that too!

1. Take photos of the artwork and turn it into a book. Do-it-yourself websites like Shutterfly are perfect for this.

2. Take photos of the masterpieces. Then laminate and blow them up, if necessary, to be used as place mats. For extra fun, take the pictures in Instagram to add creative borders and/or filters!

3. Take photos of your kid's art and turn them into anything you can
print on or order online (i.e. calendars, mugs, mouse pads, t-shirts). Check out ArtKive for this!

4. Make a movie! Line up your child's artwork on the floor or against
the wall so that all the pieces are easy to see. Use a video camera to
visually record each one (in a single take if possible). You can
optionally add some music in the background and voila!

5. Have your child's artwork handled professionally by one of the following companies:

They will appear on a Web page exactly the way you enter it here. You can wrap a word in square brackets to make it appear bold. For example [my story] would show as my story on the Web page containing your story.

TIP: Since most people scan Web pages, include your best thoughts in your first paragraph.